by Colson Whitehead · HACHETTE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780708898406
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«The Underground Railroad» is the historical novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Hachette in paperback (367 pages, in English).
Cora, an enslaved woman on a cotton plantation in Georgia, flees north with Caesar on an underground railroad that is real here, with tunnels and stations. Each state along the route shows a different face of pre-Civil War America. A historical allegory about freedom and racial violence.
The work was recognised with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in slavery and the African American experience in the United States.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
